These are the meanings of the letters EXPUNCTED when you unscramble them.
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Decent (a.)
Comely; shapely; well-formed.
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Decent (a.)
Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
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Decent (a.)
Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.
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Decent (a.)
Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.
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Depute (n.)
A person deputed; a deputy.
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Depute (v. t.)
To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.
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Depute (v. t.)
To appoint; to assign; to choose.
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Except (conj.)
Unless; if it be not so that.
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Except (prep.)
With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
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Except (v. i.)
To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
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Except (v. t.)
To object to; to protest against.
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Except (v. t.)
To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
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Exeunt ()
They go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except Hamlet. See 1st Exit.
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Expect (n.)
Expectation.
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Expect (v. t.)
To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated.
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Expect (v. t.)
To wait for; to await.
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Expect (v. t.)
To wait; to stay.
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Expend (v. i.)
To be laid out, used, or consumed.
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Expend (v. i.)
To pay out or disburse money.
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Expend (v. t.)
To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
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Extend (v. t.)
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering.
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Extend (v. t.)
To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them.
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Extend (v. t.)
To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail.
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Extend (v. t.)
To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand.
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Extend (v. t.)
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors.
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Extend (v. t.)
To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.
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Extend (v. t.)
To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
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Pecten (n.)
A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.
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Pecten (n.)
Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten, and numerous allied genera (family Pectinidae); a scallop. See Scallop.
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Pecten (n.)
The comb of a scorpion. See Comb, 4 (b).
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Pecten (n.)
The pubic bone.
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punted (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.